Jeff Birkenstein
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Associate Professor of English |
| Location | Lacey, Washington State, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a human. I'm usually as oblivious as I am observant, just depends on the thing. For instance, I don't see cats. I'm an Associate Professor and the Chair of the English Department at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. I think that pronouns are usually the key to figuring out what people really mean. When I'm in Death Valley National Park or under the water in Lake Tahoe I don't want to be anywhere else... |
| Interests | Travel, Hiking, Eating, Cooking, Reading, Napping, Teaching, Writing, Swimming, Kayaking, Waking up Early, Sunrises, Talking, Listening, Playing with Foreign Languages (especially Spanish), Dogs |
| Favorite movies | Short Cuts, Time Bandits, 24-Hour Party People, The Forbidden Zone, Aguirre Wrath of God, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Masada, Children of Men, The Jungle Book, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Nightmare Before Christmas, Star Wars Episodes IV-VI |
| Favorite music | Billie Holiday, Neil Diamond, The Damned, Jacques Brel, Johnny Cash, The Kingston Trio, Gogol Bordello, Mumford & Sons, Lady Gaga, Marc Almond, Tom Waits, Dar Williams, New Order, (The Mystic Knights of the) Oingo Boingo, Dead Can Dance, Ani DiFranco, The Pogues, The Clash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission UK, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, Bauhaus |
| Favorite books | Gurney Norman, Antony Beevor, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O'Connor, Ambrose Bierce, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Mike Davis' City of Quartz, Edgar Allan Poe, James Baker Hall, Bobbie Ann Mason, James Joyce's Dubliners, Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Larry McMurtry, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Sherman Alexie, Dagoberto Gilb, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Kate Chopin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Don DeLillo's White Noise, Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, Leon Uris' Exodus, James Michener's The Source, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Richard Russo's Straight Man |
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Stay more or less calm and carry on. Napping is key...